The Big Red defense, which stymied Princeton and Virgnia in successive games, has been equally tough on Syracuse. Cornell does a great job of sliding to the open man and then recovering so that open man has no real outlet for a scoring opportunity. And Jake Myers has done a nice job in the Cornell goal -- he just stopped a set SU man-up play to end the half by smothering a doorstep chance by Stephen Keogh.

John Glynn has been terrific. He already has two goals and two assists for the Big Red, easily the leading points producer of the game thus far. Cornell has been characteristically patient on offense, with freshman attackman Rob Pannell directing traffic from X.

The stadium is fairly full here, considering the partisan Upstate New York participants. The second half awaits ...